Teaching Tales: Study Groups

Teaching Tales: Study Groups

Enjoy this, the third in a series of posts about teaching at GMU and NVCC.  In researching how to teach effectively, I now focused on learning styles. I was sure that I would need to cater to these. Diagrams and pictures on the PowerPoint slides would help the visual...
Teaching Tales: Testing Problems

Teaching Tales: Testing Problems

Here follows the second installment of my series on my experience as a biology professor at NVCC and GMU. How Hard Should it Be? It was time for the first exam. Since many students didn’t take notes, I figured the material was probably too easy for them. I carefully...
Teaching Tales: The First Lab

Teaching Tales: The First Lab

My years of teaching biology and biology labs at Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University were both educational and enjoyable. In the following series of blogs, I’ll be sharing stories that illustrate both. Enjoy! The First Lab Beginning...
Author Interview

Author Interview

I’ve just been asked to interview with a prominent British magazine–I accepted, of course. In preparation, I reread this interview with All Author and decided to reproduce those parts that are still relevant and update the rest here. Caroline, your...